This page is a guideline of how the Politics of the United Kingdom WikiProject should handle articles related to the successive ministries (governments) of the United Kingdom.
Ministry articles should follow these conventions:
Use the following two articles as models. The tables used at Cameron ministry are ideal, and should be copied for future ministry articles. If anyone wishes, they may undertake updating older ministry pages with these new-style tables. Future ministry articles should focus primarily on basic history and minister lists, as a new type of article the Premiership of… series (e.g. Premiership of David Cameron), has taken on the role of long-form documentation of the history of governments.
All Ministry articles should be tagged with the {{ WP UK Politics}} banner and assessed on their quality and importance to the project.
Articles should be judged on the standard quality scale set out by the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is replicated on this project's Assessment page.
Label | Criteria |
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List | All ministry articles Examples: Cameron Ministry, Lloyd George Ministry |
The importance assessment is a judgement by each individual WikiProject on what they consider to be their priority articles. In theory the Top importance articles should be the first to reach a level of quality sufficient to be included in Version 1.0 (or a subsequent version) while Low importance articles will usually reach the same level of quality at a later stage.
The following table lists the importance criteria for ministry articles within the WikiProject.
Label | Criteria |
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Mid | All ministry articles, except the current ministry Examples: Lloyd George Ministry |
High | The current ministry Examples: Cameron Ministry |
While the generic importance criteria above should apply to the majority of ministry articles, a small number of exceptions can be made if editors feel a particular party has a different level of importance. If you wish to make an exception to the criteria, please add a new section to the project talk page to explain why you think an exception is necessary. If there are no objections then you are free to make the exception.
All ministry articles must comply with WP:V, WP:RS and avoid breaking WP:OR. This section attempts to set out some problems and solutions with sourcing ministry articles